Another vote for the 04 Enduro…not that I’m biased!

Another vote for the 04 Enduro!

SC Nomad.

Intense trace. The Host link one from 2001.

On one inbred or SC Superlight

But then I would say that 🙂

The Trek EX8 for a change, fantastic bike that just get slightly better with each incarnation and totally flatters an average rider, for some reason it never gets the attention like the Five but I’ve owned both and love it.

Another vote for the 04 Enduro .

Another vote here for the ’04 Enduro.

2004 Enduro. Mine is also still going strong, great bike!

05/06 enduro

or if we’re voting for a series of bikes, the enduro in general despite its dodgy 07-09 phase.

hardtail – Cotic Soul, sus – Orange 5. Not cos they are British in particular but because they are evolved/refined designs. For me the Stumpy has done more than evolve, it is basically a number of different bikes that have shared a name.

Bit OT – for me the bike wearing the Stumpjumper name is now too “burly” I’d prefer the Camber to be the Stumpy and vice versa. Bit sad I suppose but just how I think of the Stumpjumper.

04 Enduro…t’was & is still a great bike.Might even ride mine again one day….

Pompino

Niner SIR9
Cos:
it take a great material to a glorious extreme
Clever EBB makes it compatible with hub gears, ss, fixed and you can even use a mech!
How can a rigid bike be so smooth and capable

It won’t win cos very few people have the chance to ride one – our demo has done only a dozen demo rides.

Turner 5 Spot (in it’s HL incarnation)

Or the 04 Enduro (the poor man’s 5-Spot)

The Pitch’s grandad gets my vote too…

2003/04 enduro has it for me.

Orange P7. Great do it all bike, that has been continually evolved over the years.

Likewise for the Five.

Whyte 46

s – Member
2nd vote for Jordan

It can’t be Jordan, she’s actually an earlier model that’s been extensively refurbished and given a new paint job.

+1 for the Orange P7 bought my first one in 1996 and got another one last year, seems to have continually evolved. great bikes.
for full suss i love the Ibis Mojo, truely a beautiful bike

The bike that stepped things up for me was the Giant VT (2004/5 I think). The first bike for me that was capable of a bit of everything from XC to full on DH courses and was good at it. Enduro’s couldn’t take the hits like the VT could and yes I owned both.

HT would need to be the Cove HJ, Great bike.

The Enduro is a very good choice. A bike that started the decade and has evolved with the progression of trails and ability.

Personally, I would shout for the Kona Stinky for the same reasons as above. It has evolved to meet the demands of it’s riders. I would kill to get my Stinky Six back… 😥

Orange 5.

I have tried but I cannot pick one!!
Never had the Enduro but do remember it as a transition moment to those sorts of bikes, one of the first to make gnar accessable to non-DH riders
Spec Stumpy (x2 in the house) – great alround bike, very effective if a little safe 😉
Inbred (x3 in the house) – great alround bike, alway good fun, amazing for the money
SC Heckler – (only one) even better than the above two, again makes everything fun
Orange Fives – (we have had two), very good, if alittle noisy and a touch clunky 😕
And a vote for the Cotic Soul – an all time great HT – if I could only have one bike it would be one of these so I suppose I have voted!

2004 Enduro
Turner 5 Spot HL

SC HECKLER!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve lusted after one since I was 12 and finally got one this year. I’m 27 and so, so happy with it!

heckler

Inbred
Chameleon
Enduro

Owned them all (still got the chameleon), all amazing bikes. Hard to choose between the inbred and chameleon for ‘most smiles per pound’ but I think the chameleon just wings it.

Anyone on here actually ridden Jordan?

SC Nomad +1

Inbred

I’ve had the Original, 456 & Summer Season.

Surely it wins on numbers, simplicity, fun, being Northern and quite possibly showing us how much things should actually cost?

No, that honour goes to the Cove Stiffee and the Santa Cruz Cameleon (sp?)

Nope neither, i think a kona of some sort did that (IIRC the chute)

As for bike of the decade stinky will get my vote. It can’t be the indred or any on-one lets face it. Once you’ve learn to sin and get to see other countries no-one (see what I did here I am pretty chuffed) knows what on-one is.

Orange Patriot… which then morphed into the Five ( when will people accept it’s essentially the same simple can-crusher bike?? )

Actually the Americans love the on-one 29ers.

For me, personally, it would have to be the Cotic Soul.

And by a country mile.

I’ve had a heckler, a handjob, a motolite and a vf2.

Cotic has been the bike of choice since I bought it.

Maverick ML7 – The early american built one’s. Beautiful.

+1 on the inbred

Simplicity, cost and most of all fun

Cotic Bfe

Giant NRS.
Specialized Epic.

Kona Stinky…affordable full suspension that worked both down and up.
Freeride/AM/whatever for the masses that couldn’t afford a Patriot/Heckler/5Spot…